SERIAL
STORY
PICTURES BY A. WEIL
y LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
(Copright MM, Th Bobb Uarrlil Co.)
SYNOPSIS.
"Mad" Dan Maltland, on reaching his
New York bachelor club, met an attrac
tive young woman at the door. Janitor
J Hasan assured him no one had been
witnin that day. Dan discovered a wom
an' finger prints In dust on his desk
along with a letter from his attorney
Maltland dined with Bannerman, his at
torney. Dan set out for Greenfields, to
get his family jewels. Maltland. on
teaching home, surprised lady In gray,
cracking the safe containing his gems.
She, apparently, took him for a well-
known crook, Daniel Anisty. 1 Half-hypnotized.
Maltland onened his safe, took
therefrom the jewels, and gave them to
her, first forming a partnership In crime.
The real Dan Anisty, sought by police of
the world, appeared. Maitland overcame
mm. ne and the girl went to New York
In her auto. He had tbe jewels. She
was to meet him that day. A "Mr.
Bnalth" introduced himself as a detec
tive. To shield the girl in gray, Maitland,
aoout to snow him the Jewels, supposedly
'lost, was felled by a blow from "Snalth's"
cane. The latter proved to be Anisty
himself and he secured the gems. Anisty,
who was Maitland's double, masqueraded
as the latter. The criminal kept Malt
land's engagement with the girl In gray.
He gave her the gems. The girl In gray
visited Maltland's -apartments during his
ansence ana returned gems. Maitland
without cash, 'called up his home and
heard a woman s voce expostulating.
Anisty, Cisguised as Maltland, tried to
wring I rum her the location or the gems
A trash was heard at the front door
Maltland overwhelmed the crook, allow-
lng him to escape to shield the young
woman, ine gin in gray mane ner es
cape. Jumping Into a cab. An Instant
later, by working a ruse, Anisty was at
Her side. He took her to Attorney Ban-
nerman's office. There, by torture, he
tried in vain to wring from her the loca
tion of the gems. He left her a moment
and she 'phoned O'Hagan, only getting In
the words: "Tell Mr. Maitland under the
brass howl." the hiding place In the lat
ter's rooms, when . Anisty heard her
words. Bannerman also was revealed a
a crook. Heand Anisty set out to secure
the gems and leave town. The girl was
still Imprisoned. Maltland finding the girl
gone, searched his rooms and unearthed
the jewels under the brass bowl. He
struck Anlsty's trail in a big office build
ing.
CHAPTER XV. Continued.
"Ah, cut that, can't yeh?" HIckey
got on all fours, found his cigar, stuck
It In his mouth, and fell Into place at
Maltland's side.
"Hickey, I mean. But how"
"If yeh're Maitland, "nd Anlsty's at
the St. Luke buildin', tell that fool up
there to drive!"
Maitland had no need to lift the
trap; the cabby had already done
that.
"All right," the young man called
"It's Detective Hickey. Drive on!"
The lash leaped out over the roof
cr-rack! and the horse, presumably
convinced that no speed other than a
dead-run would ever again be de
manded of it, tore frantically down the
avenue, the hansom rocking like a topsail-schooner
In a heavy gale.
Maitland and the detective were bat
tered against the side and back of the
vehicle and slammed against one an
other with painful regularity. Under
such circumstances speech was diffi
cult; yet they managed to exchange a
few sentences.
"Yeh gottuh gun?"
"Anlsty's two good cartridges."
"Jus' as well I'm along, I guess."
And again: "How'd yeh s'pose An
isty got this cab?"
"I don't know must 've been In the
bouse I told cabby to wait Anisty
seems to have walked out right on
your heels."
"Hell:" And a moment later:
"What's this about a woman In the
case?" '
Maitland fook swift thought on her
behalf.
"Too long to go Into now," he parried
the query. "You help me catch this
scoundrel Anisty and I'll put in a
good word for you with the deputy
commissioner."
"Ah, yeh help me nab him," grunted
the detective, ' 'nd I won't need no
good word with nobody."
The hansom swung into Broadway,
going like a whirlwind; and picked up
an uniformed officer in front of the
Flatiron building, who, shouting and
using his locust stridently, sprinted
after them. A block further down an
other fell Into line; and he it was who
panted at the step an Instant after the
cab had lurched to a stop before the
entrance to the St. Luke building.
Hickey bad rolled out before the
policeman had a chance to bluster.
" 'Lo, Bergen," he greeted the man.
The I
BRASS
BOWlJ
"Yeh know me I'm Hickey, central
office. Yeh're jus' in time. Anlsty's
in this buildin' 'r was ten minutes
ago. We want all the help we c'n get."
By way of reply the officer stooped
and drummed a loud alarm on the
sidewalk with his night-stick.
Bay, he panted, rising, ' you re a
wonder, Hickey if you get him.
"Uh-huh," grunted the detective
with a sidelong glance at Maltland.
"Cm "long."
The lobby of the building was quite
deserted as they entered, the night-
watchman invisible, the night elevator
on its way to the roof as was discov
ered by consultation of the Indicator
dial above the gate. Hickey punched
the night call bell savagely.
"Me 'nd him," he said, Jerking the
free thumb at Maitland, " '11 go up and
hunt him out Begin at th' top floor
an' work down. That's th' way, huh?
'Nd," to the policeman, "yeh stay here
an' hold up anybody 't tries tuh leave
th" buildin. There ain't no othter en
trance, I s'pose, what?"
"Basement door an' ash lift's round
th' corner," responded the officer. "But
that had ought tub be locked, night."
"Well, 'f anybody else comes along
yeh put him there, anyway, for luck.
What 'n hell's th' matter with this
elevator?"
The detective settled a pudgy index-
finger on the push button and elicited
a far, thin, shrill peal from the an
nunciator above! But the Indicator ar
row remained as motionless as the car
at the top of the shaft. Another sum
mons gained no response, in likewise,
and a third was also disregarded.
Hickey stepped back, face black as
a storm-cloud, summed up bis opinion
of the management of the building in
one soul-blistering phrase, produced
his bandana and used It vigorously,
uttered a libel on the ancestry of the
night-watchman and the likes of him,
and turned to give profane welcome to
the policeman who had noticed the
cab at Twenty-third street and who
now panted in, blown and perspiring.
Much to his disgust he found himself
assigned to stand guard over the base
ment exits; and waddled forth again
into the street.
Meanwhile the first officer to arrive
upon the scene was taking his turn at
agitating the button and shaking the
gates; and with no more profit of his
undertaking than Hickey. After a
minute or two of it he acknowledged
defeat with an oath, and turned away
'to browbeat the straggling vanguard
of belated wayfarers messenger
boys, slatternly drabs, hackmen, loaf
ers, and one or two plain citizens con
spicuously out of their reputable
grooves who were drifting in at the
Hickey Was Using His Revolver.
entrance to line the lobby Walls with
blank, curious faces. Forerunners of
that mysterious rabble which is ap
parently precipitated out of the very
air by any extraordinary happening in
city streets, if allowed to remain they
would in live minutes have waxed In
numbers to the proportions of an un
manageable mob; and the policeman.
knowing this, set about dispersing
them with perhaps greater discretion
than consideration.
They wavered and fell back, grum
bling discontentedly; and Maitland.
his anxiety temporarily distracted by
the noise they made, looked round to
find his erstwhile cabby at his elbow.
Of whom the sight was inspiration.
Ever thoughtful, never unmindful of
her whose influence held him in this
coil, he laid an arresting hand on the
man's sleeve.
"You've got your cab ?"
"Yissir, right houtside."
"Drive round the corner, away from
the crowd, and wait for me. If she
the young lady comes without me,
drive her anywhere she tells you and
come to my rooms to-morrow morning
for your pay."
"Thankee, sir."
Maitland turned back, to find the
situation round the elevator shaft In
statu quo. Nothing had happened, save
that Hlckey's rage and vexation had
increased mightily.
"But why don't you go up after
him?"
"How n blazes can I?" exploded the
detective. "He's got th' night car. 'F
I takes the stairs, he comes down by
th' thaft, 'nd how'm I tuh trust this
here mutt?" He indicated his associ
ate but humbler custodian of the peace
with a disgusted gesture.
"Perhaps one of the other cars will
run " Maltland suggested.
"Ah, they're all dead ones," Hickey
disagreed with disdain as the young
man moved down the row of gates, try
ing one after another. "Yeh're only
wastln' "
He broke off with a snort as Malt
land, somewhat to his own surprise,
managing to move the gate of the
third shaft from the night elevator,
stepped into the darkened car and
groped foit. the controller. Presently
his fingers encountered it, and he
moved it cautiously to one side. A
vicious blue spark leaped hissing from
the controller-box and the cage
bounded up a dozen feet, and was only
restrained from its ambition to soar
skywards by an Instantaneous release
of the lever.
By discreet manipulation Maltland
worked the car down to the street
floor again, and Hickey, with a grunt
that might be interpreted as an apol
ogy for his incredulity, jumped in.
"Let 'er rip!" he cried, exultantly.
"Fan them folks out intuh th' street,
Bergen, 'nd watch ow-ut!"
Maitland was pressing the lever
slowly wide of its catch, and the
lighted lobby dropped out of sight
while the detective was still shouting
admonitions to the police below. Grad
ually gaining momentum the car began
to shoot smoothly up Into the black
ness, safety chains clanking beneath
the floor. Hickey fumbled for the
electric light switch but, finding it, im
mediately shut the glare off again and
left the car in darkness.
"Safer," he explained, sententious.
"Anisty '11 shoot, 'nd they says he
shoots straight."
Floor after floor In ghostly strata
slipped silently down before their
eyes. Half-way to the top, approxi
mately, Hlckey's voice rang sharply
in the volunteer operator's ear.
"Stop 'er! Hold 'er steady. T'other's
comln' down."
Maltland obeyed, managing the car
with greater ease and less jerkily as
he began to understand the principle
of the lever. The cage paused in the
black shaft, and he looked upward.
Down the third shaft over, the other
cage was dropping like a plummet, a
block of golden light walled in by
black filigree-work and bisected verti
cally by the black line of the guide
rail. "Stop that there car!"
Hlckey's stentorian command had
no effect; the block of light continued
to fall with unabated speed.
ine aeieciive wasted no more
breath. As the other car swept past!
Maltland was shocked by a report and
flash beside him. Hickey was using
his revolver.
The detonation was answered by a
cry, a scream of pain, from the lighted
cage. It paused on the instant, like
a bird ( stricken a-wing, some four
floors below, but at once resumed its
downward swoop.
"Down, down! After 'em!" Hickey
bellowed. "I dropped one. by God!
T'other can't"
"How many in the car?" interrupted
Maitland, opening the lever with a
firm and careful hand.
"Only two, same's us. I hit th' feller
what was runnin' it "
"Steady!" cautioned Maitland, de
creasing the speed, as the car ap
proached the lower floor.
Tht other had beaten them down;
but its arrival at the street level was
greeted by a short chorus of mad yells,
a brief fusillade of shots perhaps
five in all and the clang of the gate.
Then, like a ball rebounding, the cage
swung upwards again, hurtling at full
speed.
Evidently Anisty had been received
In force which he had not bargained
for.
Maltland Instinctively reversed the
CONFESSION OF
And
How He Found His
In the World."
Niche
"Where youth is coupled with intel
ligence, illusions pass rapidly away.
Early in my married life it dawned on
me that I was going to be at home
for a long stay. I realized that my
tenure In business, and even my place
in my father's family, were insignifi
cant in their importance when com
pared with this new relation I had es
tablished. I saw that it was the
greatest contract I had ever signed.
I was also becoming conscious of my
relative insignificance in the general
scheme of things. It appeared less
likely that I should be called away to
dig the Panama canal, and more aud
more probable that I should continue
In the daily performance In Incon
spicuous work. y
"Out of all this there came to my
wife and me the realization that the
greatest chance within our reach lay
right there in our two-by-four house.
If the world was unappreciative of
our unparalleled, talents, the world
could go hang, ie'd use them our-.J
lever and sent his own car upward
again, slowly, waiting for the other to
overtake it. Peering down through
the Iron lattice-work he could Indis
tinctly observe the growing cube of
light, with a dark shape lying huddled
in one corner of the floor. A second
figure, rapidly taking shape as Anisty's,
stood by the controller, braced against
the side of the car, one hand on the
lever, the other poising a shining
thing, the flesh-colored oval of his face
turned upwards in a supposititious at
tempt to discern the location of the
dark car.
Hickey, by firing prematurely, lent
him adventitious aid. The criminal re
plied with spirit, aiming at the flash,
his bullet spattering against the back
wall of the shaft. Hlckey's next bullet
rang with a bell-like note against the
metal-work, Anisty's presumably went
wide though Maitland could have
sworn he felt the cold kiss of its
breath upon his cheek. And the lighted
cage rocked past and up.
Maltland needed no admonition to
pursue; his blood was up, his heart
singing with the lust of the man-hunt.
Yet Anisty was rapidly leaving them,
his car soaring at an appalling pace.
Towards the top he evidently made
some attempt to slow up, but either
he was Ignorant of the management of
the lever, or else the thing had got
beyond control. The cage rammed
the buffers with a crash that echoed
through the sounding halls like a peal
of thunder-claps; it was instantane
ously plunged into darkness. There
followed a splintering and rending
sound, and Maitland, heart in mouth,
could make out dimly a dark, falling
shadow in the further shaft. Yet ere
it had descended a score of feet the
safety-clutch acted and, with a third
tremendous Jar, shaking the building,
the car halted.
Hickey and Maitland were then some
five floors below. "Stop 'er at 19," or
dered the detective. There was a lilt
of exultancy in his voice. "We got
him now, all right, all right. He'll try
to get down by There!" Overhead
the crash of a gate forced open was
followed by a scurry of footsteps ovet
the tiling. "Stop .'er and we'll head
him off. So now eeeasy!"
Maitland shut off the power as the
car reached the nineteenth floor.
Hickey opened the gate and Jumped
out. "Shut that," he commanded,
sharply, as Maltland followed him,
"in case he gets past us."
He paused a moment in thought,
heavy head on bull-neck drooping for
ward as he stared toward the rear of
the building. He was fearless and re
sourceful, for all his many deficiencies.
Maitland found time, quaintly enough,
to regard him with detached curiosity,
a rare animal, illustrating all that was
best and worst In his order. Endowed
with exceptional courage, his ad
dress in emergencies seemed alto
gether admirable.
"Yeh guard them stairs," he decided,
suddenly. "I'll run through this hall,
'nd see what's doing. Don't hesitate
to shoot if he tries to jump yeh." And
was gone, clumping briskly down the
corridor to the rear.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Marriage of Widows In India.
We are glad to note the number of
widow marriages increasing every
year. Following on the heels of one
In high life In Calcutta, there have
been lately three such marriages in
different parts of the country. This is
a noteworthy record, which Bhould
cause the social reformer to take heart
for the ultimate success of his work.
The agitation that has been kept up
for years by the social conference
has been successful, if only in im
pressing all classes of the Hindu com
munity with the necessity of widow
marriage. It is, however, well known
that those who still take exception to
it and offer sentimental objections
have no widowed daughters at home,
and consequently have no means to
Judge their sad condition. Indian
Mirror.
ONE HUSBAND
, "And so we set out to Surmount all
difficulties. We haven't done that
yet, but we have made a start. I
have cultivated my wife's relatives
until I have come to the conclusion
that they are practically as desirable
as my own. My wife has pursued the
same attitude toward vb ru'ellves to
the point where sh?' 'thinks more fa
vorably of sytr.3' of thorn than I do
myself. ,t
"We ne.'-'er quarrel In the sense that
we harbor and nourish feelings of
hate. Sometimes we talk loud, but
we keep on talking until our voices
run down mid become so amiable that
it Is both safe and restful to break
off. I can listen to the reading of
choice poetry, and my wife can pre
tend that she enjoys the dog show.
I can sit through the play 'Hamlet,'
even keeping my seat while that luna
tic Ophelia Is on the stage. This la my
great achievement, but it Is more
than matched by my wife, who can
sit with her back to the wall and ap
pear to be calm while I read about
Edgar Allan Poe's story of how the
rats bothered that fellow In jail."
American Magazine
YOUTH LIVES IN THE PAST
Wisconsin Boy Reared by a Talented
Recluse Is a Most Accom
plished Latinist. '
Hayton, Wis. Gustave Bauman of
this place Is so complete a Latinist
that, could he be transported to an
cient Rome, its language would be en
tirely familiar to him. Aside from his
unique knowledge of Latin he is alto
gether untaught. He has never attend
ed school a day, can speak English
not at all and German only in the col
loquial form common here. He Is 13
years old.
. When be was three years old he
was adopted by Henry Bauman, a tal-
Gustavo Bauman.
ented recluse who has lived here In
a hovel that was once a stable, for
many years. Disgusted, be said, with
everything pertaining to modern life,
Bauman determined to rear his foster
son in the atmosphere of a by-gone
age. Tbe classic tongue of Rome was
the only language taught to the boy
by his eccentric parent, who was well
able to follow his part, be having been
a noted Latin scholar in Europe.
When the lad was ten years old he
possessed a knowledge of Latin that
the school taught youth of twice his
age could not hope ever to equal. Now,
he speaks the ancient tongue so well
and reads and writes it with such
fluency that he may well be said to
have revived a dead language.
The elder Bauman's desire to bring
up the boy in an atmosphere of aloof
ness from all that is modern has been
well carried out. The youth has never
ridden on a train, used a telephone or
in any way mingled in the life of the
village, which, narrow as It is, repre
sents to him the great outside world,
?ull of evils and temptations.
Woma Dies of Hiccoughs.
Phlladelj-jfila, Pa. After giving a
most remarkable Instance of the pow
er of the mind over the body, Kathryn
O'Donnell died of hiccoughs at her
home in Camden. For fifteen months
she had been BubJect to paroxysms.
From 9 weight of 140 pounds she be
came a living skeleton of slxty-flva
pounds. Five times medical science de
clared she could not survive more than
a few hours. Each time she declared
she, would not die, and she recovered
sufficiently to attdnd to ordinary house
hold duties. .
Travels Far to .Old Home.
Tacoma, Wash. After traveling
for fifteen months across the conti
nent, sleeping in the open prairie,
dodging freight and passenger trains,
working along the right of way and
feeding somehow through the summer
and winter, "Collie," a thoroughbred
collie dog, belonging to A. Brill of
Edmonton, has Just worked his way
back to his old home near Sherbroak,
Ontario. The owner baa announced
his intention of having the dog
shipped back to Edmonton.
1,800 Foreign Girls Lost.
Indianapolis, Ind. "Eighteen hun
dred immigrant girls were lost track
of after having been received at Ellis
Island, and put aboard trains for Chi
cago and other points in tbe west, in
the last year and a half," Miss Grace
Abbott of Hull House, Chicago, said
In discussing In the biennial conven
tion of the Young Women's Christian
association of America, the problem
of caring for Immigrant girls. Miss
Abbott advocated a federal immigra
tion bureau in Chicago, "as a check
on the work of the white slavers."
Immigrant gtrls deserted the quaint
shawls and aprons of their native
lands for the hobble skirt all too
quickly, Miss Abbott said.
Bees Tie Up Railroads.
Omaha, Neb. Ail railroad trafflo
was stopped for an hour at Union
depot here, when two stands of honey
bees fell and broke open, the bees
swarming all over the depot and put
ting everybody to rout Ten cases
were being carried on a truck, when
just without the waitlngroom door two
stands fell off. An hour passed be
fore trafflo could be resumed.